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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #160 on: 05/05/2016 06:51 pm »
OK, repeat after me

"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"

If everyone chants this for about 10 minutes around 1:25 AM we should be home free, and OCISLY will catch another stage.

(prompted by someone on another thread saying that SpaceX will soon have so many surplus rockets that they will start flinging stuff at Mars just to get rid of them)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #161 on: 05/05/2016 07:04 pm »
Two things come to mind.

One cow, freezer full of embryos, enough to ensure genetic diversity.

Aquaponics. Someone just started one here. It's hydroponic and fish tanks (plus the correct equipment). The plants grow in hydroponic tanks, the tank water is clear enough for the fish tanks. The fish tank water goes to a biotank to convert waste to fertilizer which feeds the plants. Food and meat.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #162 on: 05/05/2016 07:26 pm »
OK, repeat after me

"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"

If everyone chants this for about 10 minutes around 1:25 AM we should be home free, and OCISLY will catch another stage.

... to the tune of "There's a tavern in the town".

We need a rocket in the barn (in the barn)
Another rocket in the barn (in the barn)
To prep it for another flight to space
And keep the dreams of Mars on pace
Getting through max-Q for humanity becoming fully spacefaring

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #163 on: 05/05/2016 07:53 pm »
Am I the only one that looked at this and said Princess Leah?
Princess Vespa!
Where is the super effective hair dryer???
It's called a Falcon 9... Now if you want a super super effective hair dryer you will have to wait for the Falcon Heavy!
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #164 on: 05/05/2016 08:01 pm »
Does anyone know if SpaceX deleted their Live Stream account?  All the links that I have are returning a 404 error.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #165 on: 05/05/2016 08:31 pm »
Well I've tried sleep shifting this week to be bright eyed and bushy tailed by 5am in the morning my time (an hour and a bit ahead of launch). Aim was to be sleepy by 10pm my time and do a good seven hour sleep.

Needless to say, it's not going to work out ;D

Stupid launch window ;)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #166 on: 05/05/2016 08:32 pm »
Does anyone know if SpaceX deleted their Live Stream account?  All the links that I have are returning a 404 error.

Just looked at the links on the live update thread and it's working for me.

If that's what you mean....I may be getting youtube and livestream confused. Anyway, the below is youtube.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #167 on: 05/05/2016 09:03 pm »
/u/Bencredible on Reddit, who is known to run the webcasts, said recently that he's making some major backend changes.

Could be that they're ditching Livestream in favor of going full YouTube, which would make sense.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #168 on: 05/05/2016 09:19 pm »
Ahem, this is the party thread, that sounds like a serious update ... SO off topic!

But why would he be tinkering on launch day? We need to get Bencredible over here too :)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #169 on: 05/05/2016 09:22 pm »
Excited to be on launch day.  Fingers crossed they can light the candle and send it aloft
Wildly optimistic prediction, Superheavy recovery on IFT-4 or IFT-5

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #170 on: 05/05/2016 09:22 pm »
Ahem, this is the party thread, that sounds like a serious update ... SO off topic!

But why would he be tinkering on launch day? We need to get Bencredible over here too :)

He's been a member here for about eight years.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #171 on: 05/05/2016 09:27 pm »
OK, repeat after me

"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"
"We need another rocket in the barn"

If everyone chants this for about 10 minutes around 1:25 AM we should be home free, and OCISLY will catch another stage.

(prompted by someone on another thread saying that SpaceX will soon have so many surplus rockets that they will start flinging stuff at Mars just to get rid of them)

You fools, why are you blinded so?!

Clearly, the reasoning behind BFR is so they can fling the actual stages at Mars once they start to surplus out on F9 and FH cores/boosters. When the BFR stages start to stack, they'll resort to a larger BFR. Slowly but surely the entire mass of the Earth will be converted into rocket stages, only to be cast into Mars in a desperate endeavour to move all life on Earth to the Red Planet.

We must stop this shenaniganry before it's too late.
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #172 on: 05/05/2016 09:45 pm »
Chris,

This is what I see when I use the link from the LiveStream digest email that I received earlier this week.

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #173 on: 05/05/2016 09:57 pm »
on r/spacex the person in charge of the webcasts said they were moving to YT for streams. look at SpaceX's YT channel.

Titan IVB was a cool rocket

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #174 on: 05/05/2016 10:22 pm »
Thanks to those who replied.  I will use the YouTube links. :)

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #175 on: 05/05/2016 10:29 pm »
This is the first launch that I'm going to miss because of some hospital tests tomorrow. :( Good luck to all the teams at SpaceX to all our excellent NSF members during event coverage... Go SpaceX! Go NSF! :)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #176 on: 05/05/2016 10:33 pm »
This is the first launch that I'm going to miss because of some hospital tests tomorrow. :( Good luck to all the teams at SpaceX to all our excellent NSF members during event coverage... Go SpaceX! Go NSF! :)

Good luck with the tests, Rocket Science.  :)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #177 on: 05/05/2016 11:14 pm »
This is the first launch that I'm going to miss because of some hospital tests tomorrow. :( Good luck to all the teams at SpaceX to all our excellent NSF members during event coverage... Go SpaceX! Go NSF! :)

Good luck with the tests, Rocket Science.  :)
Thank you! :)
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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #178 on: 05/06/2016 12:18 am »
Clearly, the reasoning behind BFR is so they can fling the actual stages at Mars once they start to surplus out on F9 and FH cores/boosters. When the BFR stages start to stack, they'll resort to a larger BFR. Slowly but surely the entire mass of the Earth will be converted into rocket stages, only to be cast into Mars in a desperate endeavour to move all life on Earth to the Red Planet.

We must stop this shenaniganry before it's too late.

But there is less room on Mars. We are better off frying on to Venus! Global warming, already have it! With enough technology, we could even get frozen yogurt to exist on the surface!

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Re: The Fully and Rapidly Reusable Launch Party Thread
« Reply #179 on: 05/06/2016 04:18 am »
I know it's a party... But I hope there is some coffee around here. 😎

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